American Naive Paintings

American Naive Paintings
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 698
Release: 1992
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521443012

One of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.

American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century

American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9780894682117

Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.

Steuben Crystal

Steuben Crystal
Author: Steuben Glass (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1956
Genre: Crystal glass
ISBN:

Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton
Author: Nicholas Goodison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Nicholas Goodison revisits his earlier exhaustive study of Boulton's ormolu ornaments and his

Gari Melchers

Gari Melchers
Author: Gari Melchers
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: